Jack Nicklaus hit his approach shot to the ninth green at the Masters on Saturday afternoon and posed like a statue one last time.

Then he started to wipe his eyes. Thankfully, he couldn't wipe away all the great memories.

For the most part this was a familiar sight. Besides the price of steak, his waist size, and the length of Augusta National Golf Club, not much had changed for Nicklaus since 1959, when he played in his first Masters.

After the ball crisply left the club in the second round of his 45th and final Masters, Nicklaus leaned slightly to the right. This easily could've been a replay of his final shot in the 1963 Masters, when he won his first green jacket.

His baby-blue eyes were as focused on the ball in flight as he was in 1965, when he set a tournament record on the way to winning for a second time.

He held the club proudly in the air like it was 1986, when he stunned the world and became the oldest Masters champion.

And then the 65-year-old Nicklaus cried some more.

- Tom Hanson, Naples (Fla.) Daily News

Is the intimidation factor back? Chances are we'll find that out Sunday, as well. If DiMarco suddenly starts missing those putts he has been making all week - he leads the field in putting - surely Tiger's presence will have something to do with it.

Thomas Bjorn, who is in third place, trailing Tiger by a stroke, didn't come right out and say as much. But when he was asked about the possible outcome, it wasn't hard to tell he feared that Tiger would have his way Sunday.

"If Chris keeps playing the way he is," said Bjorn, who is playing with DiMarco in Round 3, "he's going to be very tough to beat. But Tiger is Tiger. Look what he did today. When he gets on these kind of runs, it's tough to stop him. When he plays like that, you've just gotta enjoy watching him."

Even DiMarco acknowledged he'll have to play aggressively Sunday.

"Especially with Tiger behind me," he said.

- John Harper, New York Daily News

The parallels with Fred Couples are there, public-course guys hardened by soft Puget Sound winters, unorthodox swings learned from life, not a teaching guru, and a collective concern more for touch than technique.

Ryan Moore is not as carefree as Couples, but neither is he at all uptight or overwhelmed by the moment. He wasn't afraid to tell anyone that he thought he could win here - because he did - but at the same time has come across as confident rather than cocky, showing nothing but respect for the game, the situation and those he is playing with.

The secret to Ryan Moore?

He is wed more to the art of making a shot than the execution.

- Blaine Newnham, Seattle Times